As I was saying, I received my September Studio Calico kit and a paper catched my attention.

It was different from the usual patterned paper, it was a photo! A big photo of a lake scenery and a title: Let the adventure begin.

My mind works like this, I see something and immediately I have the idea. Sometimes it's a practible idea, sometimes it ends up with something completely different and I admit that sometimes it's absolutely impossible to make.

This time I've been lucky because the result is almost the same as the original idea.

I decided for an A4 Layout to allow the photo to take a big part of the page. Since I print my photos with a Canon Selfie and the dimension of the photo is like a project life card, that means not so wide, I thought to resize to an A4 the layout.

These stamps are all from various Studio Calico Kits except for the Stitching lines, which are from BoBunny. I selected the phrases with an 'adventure' theme and stamped them on the page and on the photo itself.

The journaling is hidden beside the photo, written on the tags.

A few of other embellishments from the September kit, a couple of rubber flags and a few vellum circles and that's it!

Hi dear crafty friends,I have a new scrapbook page to show you that I made using the Halloween collection by The Robin's Nest.I saw this fun paper with a haunted house and a big moon and out of the blue I've got the idea! And I had also the right photo to make it! I explain you how I've made it here.

I'm a working mum and time is never enough, but I found Misc Me is a fun beautiful time-saving system to organize photos in an album.
Below is how I pop-up the word JOY with Chocolate Pearlesent and a withe gel pen on the first introducing page.

Particularly today I'd like to show you a beautiful day we, my family and I, spent with some dear friends last July.
It was a sunny day and the location surrounded by the green hills.

Sweet Memories Collection is the one I've chosen to frame the trip, because of its green and brown colors with a touch of pink. You know, pink is never enough for me! :-)
I usually prefer printing my photos on square format, so Misc Me Pocket Squares are perfect to mat them. And not only that! In the picture below I've used them to mat my title.

Here a closeup of a paper clip I've made using Sweet Moments Noteworthy. I love elements that pop out from the pages, it's like a peekaboo that invites you to open the album.

Here is another closeup of how I've used Misc Me Pocket Squares for journaling.

These are the pages I prefer. Me and my sons on the left and my funny husband on the right. He was pretending to ring a bell.

To give more interest to the page, I stick a banner with a string.

Between the two pages I put an acetate sheet with a doodle all around that frames the four photos and a Pocket Square in the middle.

Turniting the acetate the sheet frames the left page of the album.

Isn't it clever?

Another closeup of my handsome husband! ;-)

There are a few other pages to complete the story, but I don't want to bore you...
I hope you enjoyed these Misc Me Pages and I hope you'll give it a try.
Thanks for stopping by.
Love,
NG

Hi dear all,Yes! That's my first happy mail and I'm soo happy!At first glance, I did't realize it was for me, my husband buys so much stuff in internet that I thought it was something for him. Then, I read the addressee and it was me and it was from the wonderful Cristina Sales. Look at this, wow!

Can you guess what? I waited two days before opening it, because I wanted to do the video, one like those fun American scrappers videos with silly squeals and giggled! In a positive sense, I mean, I love American scrappers.I saw Cristina's posts, working on letters and I've thought I absolutely needed one for myself. Who could immagine to receive it as a gift??? A gift from her???Well, the 'A' has immediately found its perfect place in my studio. 'A' like Adorable!

Today is the day!A new adventure is starting!When Giorgia asked me to join her new project, I was thrilled abut the idea.You already know, reading my previous posts, that I really like scrapbook kits because of their beauty and time-saiving, but they are almost all American.That's mean high shipment costs often equal to the kit cost, not affordable at all.So why not trying to make our own kit? And why not helping and pushing people to do the same?We all are full of scrap items in our houses. But sometimes we don't know how to use them, because we think we don't have the right embellishments or we don't know how to match them.From this Giorgia Rossini's thought is born 'Crea il Tuo Kit con Angela & Giorgia', a monthly video serie where we will suggest a moodboard and we will show our kits and the projects made with them to push you to use what you already have.

We've thought also to create a Facebook Group, Crea il Tuo Kit con Angela & Giorgia, where you can freely join us to share your kits and and the projects that will come out from them.There will be monthly challenges and for this month the sponsor is CREAMILY, an online shop in Ancona, that will give a 20 euro gift on your purchase! Yuppeee! (this challenge is for Italy only)

I think that's all for today. Just a note for my foreign followers, the videos are in Italian, thought for Italian scrappers, forgive us. However, I think you can easily understand if you see the upcoming videos. If not, if you need any explanation, do not hesitate to contact me.I can't wait to see your kits!

Hello my dear BoBunny friends!
It's Angela here today to show you a mixed media layout featured with a new amazing Christmas collection, Merry & Bright.
When I work on a layout I always start from the color scheme of the paper to match the dominant color of the photo or vice-versa. This is a little secret that you maybe know and I'm pleased to share with the one who doesn't.
I had this photo of my youngest son Filippo, cute and fun and beautiful, waiting for a worthy project.
When I saw Merry & Bright release I immediately thought: Yesss! That's the right one to work with!

I decided to keep a neutral background and I found this 'perfectly match' Taupe Double Dot paper that I spread with silver Pearlescent to give it a snowy, stormy look.

I repeated the polka-dots of the patterned paper here and there with Glitter Pastes, on the patterned paper itself, to highlight the polka dots and on the Taupe paper too, to give continuity. Mixed media is such a fun.
But my preferred part of any mixed media project is embellishing the page with every sort of object!

I love using fabrics, laces and threads...

... of course chipboards and die-cuts and tags...

... sequins and even a white bear!
I wanted to make a step further so I decided to make a Christmas Tree using a straw and some flowers!

Here is the complete layout

I hope you like this fun mixed media Christmas layout and that you'll enjoy getting messy with a mixed media project using this wonderful paper collection!
Thank you so much for stopping by.

Hi my friends!Today is a celebrating day in my family, because it's my big brother birthday. Yuppie!I had and I wanted to make something special for him, but not a twee card. After all, he is a man.So I went for an exploding card, a simple and capturing one!This is how it turns up